Generations: What Sucks, What's Fucked, and What Did EA Get Right by Utter Luck

[Jeebus]

Now that the Reloaded torrent is out, EP4 is now out of the L&P category.  What's the good, what's the bad, and what's the ugly?

[kissing_toast]

Not that it matters to anyone using awesomemod but there's an official cheat to send sims back into CAS and you can now switch households via edit town.

[Greyform]

I'm not much of a modder, but it doesn't seem to have a GameplayData.package, so I have no idea how to update my out of date mods to be compatible.

[IAmTheRad]

GameplayData.package is in The Sims 3\Game\Bin\GamePlay
I gave fit atmosphere the proper 1.5 increase, and also added work hard to athletics. The two mods before didn't work.

[wizard_merlin]

you can now switch households via edit town.

I was sure that was always possible, just that you lost wishes, etc when you switched, while AM just made the process better.  I have been playing with AM for so long maybe I have it mixed up.

[Roobs]

you can now switch households via edit town.

I was sure that was always possible, just that you lost wishes, etc when you switched, while AM just made the process better.  I have been playing with AM for so long maybe I have it mixed up.

I think it's meant to be a more direct form of switching now. Just click on a house, and there's an option to switch right there in the box that pops up or something. Still, inferior to anything AM offers.

[markjs]

I'm not much of a modder, but it doesn't seem to have a GameplayData.package, so I have no idea how to update my out of date mods to be compatible.

It is now linked to Base Game package.
Those files were always duplicates, but now they used they brain at last.

[IAmTheRad]

The memories are too stupid. "I ate at a restaurant and it was good! Memory get! I then went to the park for the 6th time! Memory get! I then went to the library, and got ANOTHER memory!"
Seriously, EA fucked up on the memory system. It's too stupid to exist.

I haven't tried out children or teens yet. Nor elders. Just young adult and adult. Had a bachelor party with my Sim, and a dancer showed up. Had a wedding and got gifts.
For an expansion Generations is pretty light on content. It's less than 1GB of content (976MB installed), when LN was 2.46GB and WA was 3.47GB of content. The stuff packs are all around 275MB of content.

Can't wait until AwesomeMod comes out for this. Hopefully it will reduce the damn memory spam which is WORSE than the memories of Sims 2. Also a more sensible story progression where people don't stick around in the low jobs not getting anywhere. Seriously, my guy I've been testing it with is an evil sidekick for the criminal career, and his boss is a bagman. His wife was a gravedigger until he married her, and celebrities are popping up everywhere (but I did put in a backlot in a 40x40 lot) and random vampire Sims pop up. Mostly the elderly.

[Rockermonkey]

Is it just me, or is the frame limiter no longer working? Since it all links back to the base game, should I be running it from there? This game is really empty though, for the seconds I did play. It really doesn't feel like an expansion pack, there's no major feature.

[ShortyBoo]

Is it just me, or is the frame limiter no longer working?

I've seen a few people say that the FPS Limiter wasn't working anymore, so it's not just you.

I have the game now, but I won't be installing it until the patch mess is sorted out and AM is working for it. Plus, I had 2GB of my RAM die and the replacement won't be here until Tuesday, so I have to wait anyway. I'm sure the game could run with 6GB of RAM, but I don't think it would run as well.

[markjs]

Is it just me, or is the frame limiter no longer working? Since it all links back to the base game, should I be running it from there? This game is really empty though, for the seconds I did play. It really doesn't feel like an expansion pack, there's no major feature.

Try later to link the Frame Limiter to "TS3W.exe" instead.
This is now the default executable that will load the game.
No longer the latest EP/SP executable.

[Tangie]

I saw a screenshot of the game options page and it looks like you can turn the memory notifications off.

[Inge]

The memories are too stupid. "I ate at a restaurant and it was good! Memory get! I then went to the park for the 6th time! Memory get! I then went to the library, and got ANOTHER memory!"

Have you played for long enough to see if these "minor event" memories fade off after a couple of days?   It may be that they're weighted like the moodlets.

[IAmTheRad]

Memories are not moodlets. You get an annoying popup everytime one occurs.

[Goggalor]

One measly window, a few walls and two floors. This is the entirety of new build mode stuff.

[Rockermonkey]

Is it just me, or is the frame limiter no longer working? Since it all links back to the base game, should I be running it from there? This game is really empty though, for the seconds I did play. It really doesn't feel like an expansion pack, there's no major feature.

Try later to link the Frame Limiter to "TS3W.exe" instead.
This is now the default executable that will load the game.
No longer the latest EP/SP executable.

Didn't work for me. I even tried creating a .bat file with this fps limiting program I have, did nothing. It seems to do just enough to start the game, then the frame limiter shuts off.

EDIT: Spoke to soon. Created a .bat file with FPS Limiter v0.2 pointing to TS3W.exe, works like a charm.

[brownlustgirl]

Does that include the 3booter also being linked to TS3.exe?

[Rockermonkey]

Does that include the 3booter also being linked to TS3.exe?

That won't work. I didn't know how to link it to anything else so I just did it with this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2zzggw2zmym

You have to open the FPS_Limiter_GUI, and then generate a .bat file for the TS3W.exe. After that, you have to always start it from the .bat file. Until there's a new frame limiter, of course.

[J. M. Pescado]

3booter updated to load TS3W now.

[Painkiller]

Memory feature is really wonky. Removed all the mods and cleared the caches to playtest with a random couple from Barnacle Bay to check the memory system: made the woman yell, fight and divorce and she was the only one who had the separation and divorce memories. He didn't have any, even though he was talking to his new ex wife. He then autonomously yelled at her and had a 'huge fight' memory and she didn't get any. Kid was miserable from their instant divorce but didn't get any memory at all. Some random sim called to ask to bring her kid to play with mine, the ex husband decided to forget his wife by playing ball then the game decided it was way too much bullshit and froze. Duh.

In short, a sim only get the memory if he initiated the action, which sucks since I hoped that memory sytem could be used to know what happened to a sim while you were away playing other famblies.

[Claeric]

Home Videos are kind of...horrible.

They're cute, and they work, but when controlling a sim taking them, they move extremely fast. The videos also record in widescreen if you're using a widescreen resolution, but only play in widescreen if you play them on a widescreen TV. They are smushed on 4:3 TVs. I assume that means that on a non-widescreen resolution, your videos will be stretched on widescreen TVs.

[funnykid]

Memory feature is really wonky. Removed all the mods and cleared the caches to playtest with a random couple from Barnacle Bay to check the memory system: made the woman yell, fight and divorce and she was the only one who had the separation and divorce memories. He didn't have any, even though he was talking to his new ex wife. He then autonomously yelled at her and had a 'huge fight' memory and she didn't get any. Kid was miserable from their instant divorce but didn't get any memory at all. Some random sim called to ask to bring her kid to play with mine, the ex husband decided to forget his wife by playing ball then the game decided it was way too much bullshit and froze. Duh.

In short, a sim only get the memory if he initiated the action, which sucks since I hoped that memory sytem could be used to know what happened to a sim while you were away playing other famblies.

I think it's been suspected that the so-called memories are in fact only mere photographs in an album.

[IAmTheRad]

Memories are indeed just photographs in an album. But it's still annoying. I have two sims that are married and they're both celebrities, and memories pop up when ever they do romantic actions with each other. Doesn't matter WHAT they do. Some memories are actually good, like getting married, or getting to level 10 in a job, but NOT going to the library or park or restaurant EVERY single time they visit one.

[Rockermonkey]

Why can't you just turn off the notifications? Problem solved.

[IAmTheRad]

You can't.